fopsyknow it kind of annoys me when people say "ohh gen alpha is so cooked their little minds are so fried from all the tiktok and brainrot and and the everything else!! we're so done as the human race!!" because its literally what every previous generation has been saying about the younger one. it was tv, then videogames, now, brainrot or something i guess. and it has always been "oh its for SURE this time" and it has always been "oh but this is SO much worse than the previous thing!!". there IS no "for sure this time". we i mean gen z had youtube poop and whatnot. they'll make it. and really its the same with the slang, their brutish 67, our sacred 69, etc
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67, no, obviously not.
The attention economy, well yeah, it is different. It's not limited to the younger generation, seems like older people are worse if anything.
Is it really a problem to be concerned about the effects that extremely addictive and disuptive digital platforms might have upon children?
Things are actually getting worse and it won't necessarily turn out to be okay just because we adapted to other things in the past.